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2026-05-12 11:08:00

What Lies Beneath (2025)
As much as it hurts to witness glaciers disappearing more every year, the colors, textures and exposed geological features are some of the things I absolutely cherish each time I find myself in their vicinity...
These are truly unique landscapes to meditate on the age, scale & forces which have been shaping this planet, the environments they've created, directly and indirectly, the fragility of life trying to thrive in them, even if only temporarily, …

View of a high alpine post-glacial landscape with the bottom half entirely consisting of an exposed, colorful section of bedrock (grays, purples, dark reds), sharply delineated from the surrounding landscape, smoothed by abrasion of the former glacier here and indicating its previous vertical extent. Above that large bare rock face are alpine meadows and tundra vegetation in beautiful autumn colors. Clear bright sky.